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Exploring the awe-some: Mobile eye-tracking insights into awe in a science museum

Informal learning environments provide the opportunity to study guests' experiences as they engage with exhibits specifically designed to invoke the emotional experience of awe. The current paper presents insight gained by using both traditional survey measures and innovative mobile eye-trackin...

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Published in:PloS one 2020-09, Vol.15 (9), p.e0239204-e0239204
Main Authors: Krogh-Jespersen, Sheila, Quinn, Kimberly A, Krenzer, William L.D, Nguyen, Christine, Greenslit, Jana, Price, C. Aaron
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Language:English
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Summary:Informal learning environments provide the opportunity to study guests' experiences as they engage with exhibits specifically designed to invoke the emotional experience of awe. The current paper presents insight gained by using both traditional survey measures and innovative mobile eye-tracking technology to examine guests' experiences of awe in a science museum. We present results for guests' visual attention in two exhibit spaces, one chosen for its potential to evoke positive awe and one for negative awe, and examine associations between visual attention and survey responses with regard to different facets of awe. In this exploratory study, we find relationships between how guests attend to features within an exhibit space (e.g., signage) and their feelings of awe. We discuss implications of using both methods concurrently to shed new light on exhibit design, and more generally for working in transdisciplinary multimethod teams to move scientific knowledge and application forward.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0239204